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So there I was on a five hour layover at Vancouver International on my way back to Wainwright.   When I stepped off the plane I encountered a sight I had not seen in many years:   The confusion and elation of Cadets returning home after summer camp. Now I noticed a few things right away. The...

I ate my candle.  It's amazing how good it tasted after three days of nothing but Labrador Tea.  Rabbits are apparently smarter than snare wire.  The best part was when the cameras disappeared.  Then you KNEW it was coming.  And if nothing else, it was a decent weight loss program. Pre...

CFL, I believe you are refering to the Irish Caubeen.  It looks like an oversized beret.

Rest in peace Smokey.  :salute: All available pipers in Wainwright should report to Bldg 626 at 1100hrs, 13 Aug 05 for the playing of the lament.

Variants of the Arabic script, actually.  But hey, it's all Greek to me.  ;)

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Horton's hands down. I'm surprised none of my fellow Shilo transplants have mentioned "Forbidden Flavours"   

Peter Harclerode - "Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story Of Covert Operations From Ho Chi Minh To Osama Bin Laden"

If it is an Canadian Airborne Regiment coin, it should have the soldiers' name engraved on the back of it.

Economic Left/Right: 1.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.95 Does this mean I can keep reading the National Post?

BBC reported some of James Doohans exploits during WWII in its obituary: Obituary: James Doohan As the chief engineer on the fictional Star Trek spaceship USS Enterprise, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott cut an often flustered figure. He dealt, on a seemingly weekly basis, with the ship's overloaded...

Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team America, and then Team America goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money.

Welcome to Army.ca Scho.   Wonder if I've seen you around.   ;) http://www.lermuseum.org/ler/mh/boerwar/ has an interesting idea as to the reasoning behind the French Canadian opposition to involvement in the Boer War: Military History: The Boer War Canada's army participated in its first...

You're right, you won't get in.  And later on in life, after your medical problem has ceased to be a problem, you still won't get in. This time though, it will be because of your previous attempts at fraudulent enrolment.

Got it. I'll head to the box and feel shame.  :'(

One of my buddies who left the army for the Coast Guard College in Sydney, NS was trained on the .50 cal.  I spoke with him a few weeks ago and he told me some of the Coast Guard vessels are still armed with .50's.

But we're still pretty damn sexy.  :-*

Very true.  And I can't think of a better way to lose 34lbs.  ;D

A change from previous years is that members of the Primary Reserve can attend pre-selection as well.

"Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda" by Sir John Keegan